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The Action Time are a London-based six piece hate-fuelled gospel/trash/punk soul revue. These three girls and three boys have been together about a year - they are: Ms C C Rider, Bex Bissell, Eddie Brackett, Miss Spent Youth, Miss Susie Sparkles and Black September.

By fortunate coincidence these six rock'n'roll revolutionaries ran into one another at a Northern Soul allnighter last Spring and things haven't been the same since...

The Action Time have already been described variously as "The Tamla Motown Sex Pistols", "Shangri-Las meet The Dead Boys" and `like The Stooges being beaten-up by a teenage girl gang'. Live appearances have often been so intense that blind members of the audience have found themselves suddenly able to see, small animals have exploded and electrical appliances have been vapourized. You have been warned...

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released December 11, 2000

Recorded at Fortress Studios by Dan Swift, with interference from The Action Time.
Additional tracks produced by Baine Watson at Toerag, and by Harvey at Southern.

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Southern RecordsLondon, UK

Fiercely independent since forever, Southern Records has a musical pedigree which stretches way back to 1977, when a band
called Crass was founded (and proceeded to change punk & the world forever...but that's another story). For years Southern operated as a recording studio & the biz wheels behind labels like Crass, Corpus Christi, Bluurg & Dischord, before launching an eponymous imprint in 1991...more